Ep. 365 How to Live a Death-Aware Life with Karen Wyatt MD (ENCORE)

End-of-Life University

Learn the benefits of having a personal practice to increase our death-awareness.

In this encore solo episode I’ll be sharing with you research that shows that the human brain has a primal mechanism to protect us from thinking about and acknowledging our own personal death. Even those of us who study death and teach others how to prepare for the end of life can be in denial about our own mortality. However, living with “death awareness” is the best way to grow spiritually and make the most of every moment of life. My book The Tao of Death (with a companion journal) can be used for daily contemplation and help you become more death aware in your own life. Let’s talk about why we need to maintain our death-awareness and how to do it!

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This episode includes:

• A study that shows the defenses against death-awareness that exist in the primitive human brain
• Why personal death-awareness must be intentionally cultivated
• How death-awareness can expand and transform our lives
• Why daily death contemplation is essential to our growth
  • Think about the fleeting nature of life
  • Acknowledge fears of death and dying
  • Recognize barriers to awareness
• Benefits of increased death-awareness:
  • Enjoy the present moment
  • Find comfort in stillness
  • Experience authentic gratitude for life
  • Experience awe
  • Become less attached to material things
  • Be more inclusive and less exclusive
  • See everything as sacred

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